Turning on the System: War in the Philadelphia Public Schools

Title: Turning on the System: War in the Philadelphia Public SchoolsAuthor(s): Henry S. ResnikPublisher: John Wiley, New YorkISBN: , Pages: , Year:Search for book at Amazon.com

Henry Resnik's book is a highly personal account of events which
shook Philadelphia's public school system during a period of
ap­proximately a year and a half in 1967-68. Following a
dramatically successful decade of municipal reform in Philadelphia,
civic reform­ers had finally turned their attention in the
early 1960's to the city's schools, and had joined their efforts
with those of civil rights groups and citizens concerned with
education to revitalize a long neglected and badly deteriorated
educational system.
At the time of Resnik's first visit to Philadelphia in the fall
of 1967, the educational reform movement, which had been underway
since early in the decade, was itself undergoing a profound
change—a change which Resnik heralded as a unique opportunity
for young, bright, idealistic, and innovative people to transform a
large urban school system, to make it "responsive" and "relevant,"
to "humanize" it; in effect, to "turn it on."
The initial impetus behind this movement was provided by the
city's new superintendent of schools, Mark Shedd, who... (preview truncated at 150 words.)

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